Departmental Freedom of Information

Eleanor Laing: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many unanswered freedom of information requests there have been by his Department in the last 12 months.

Michael Wills: Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice in the annual report on freedom of information in central Government for 2007 show that of a total of 1,427 non-routine requests received by the Department. 88 (6 per cent.) had not received a substantive response within the 20 day time limit. The annual report can be found on the Ministry of Justice website at
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/freedomofinformationquarterly.htm.